Dublin exhibition features showjumper Iris Kellett
An exhibition featuring legendary Irish Gaelic showjumper Iris Kellett is on demonstrate inwards Dublin until side yesteryear side month.
Kellett, who died inwards March 2011 at the historic menstruum of 85, became a household advert inwards 1949 when she won the Princess Elizabeth Cup at White City, London. Twenty years later on she went on to win the Championship of Europe.
She received an Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2012 Horse Sport Ireland’s Breeders Awards.
In sharing her expertise inwards Equus caballus breeding, production, training and contest Irish Gaelic was an inspiration to generations of Irish breeders riders.
Kellett arrived on the international demonstrate jumping circuit towards the goal of the military machine era inwards the sport, when the World War of 1939-45 pose an effective goal to the potency of the slap-up military machine equitation schools (Ireland’s Army Equitation School is the exclusively i to live on at the world contest level).
But a devastating schooling autumn brought her career to a stop inwards 1952. She brutal hence heavily that her leg shattered as well as her shinbone was driven into the ground. It would live 10 years earlier she would live sufficiently recovered, only she made an extraordinary comeback as well as inwards 1969 was crowned Ladies European Champion at the RDS earlier retiring.
In the years that followed her international success, Kellett devoted herself to the didactics side of equestrianism, non exclusively inwards demonstrate jumping, only inwards dressage as well as eventing every bit well.
Kellett prepare unique standards as well as provided inspiration for generations of Irish Gaelic riders, unopen to of whom went on from her tutelage to blaze glory across the international stage.
Her star student was Eddie Macken. He arrived every bit a raw recruit inwards 1969 but, blessed with many of Iris’s best horses including Morning Light as well as Maxwell, he duly followed inwards her legendary footsteps. Kellett was every bit good pivotal inwards the careers of Peter Charles as well as the belatedly Paul Darragh alongside many others.
Macken’s slap-up mount, Boomerang, was sent to Kellett for “finishing school” yesteryear his breeders after beingness hunted as well as jumped inwards novice classes. There, he was commencement ridden yesteryear Macken, as well as then a working student at Kellett’s.
She eventually moved her preparation institution to Kill inwards Kildare, was a Director of the Irish Gaelic Horse Board throughout the 1970s as well as helped develop a score inwards Equitation Science at Limerick University. She judged, lectured as well as gave demonstrations worldwide as well as served on many committees, influencing the evolution of equestrianism similar few others. She served on diverse other boards as well as committees over the years, where her influence on the evolution of Ireland’s horses as well as riders was without parallel. She was the recipient of many honours, both at dwelling work solid as well as abroad, as well as inwards 1997 was inducted into the Texaco Sports Hall of Fame.
Such was the observe as well as awe inwards which she was held, as well as such was her slap-up charm as well as dignity, that she was nigh ever addressed every bit “Miss Kellett”.
The exhibition, at the Royal Dublin Society’s library inwards Ballsbridge, runs until September 30.
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